News

Schumer Calls Out Trump Over Florida Recount

Description

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer condemned President Trump for trying to "bully" Florida into calling the highly-contested Senate race going through a recount this week. WASHINGTON — Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer railed against President Donald Trump on Tuesday as the recount for the Senate race in Florida dragged on a week beyond Election Day. Bill Nelson, the Democrat at risk of being unseated by the Republican challenger Gov. "The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged," he wrote on Twitter.

More videos on the subject

U.S. President Donald Trump is urging Florida election officials to end the state's recount.
Officials in the state are moving to review more than 8 million ballots by Thursday from last week's midterm elections.
The lead by Republican candidates for a seat in the U.S. Senate and for the governor’s office shrank as more ballots were recounted.
State law mandates recounts in elections where the margin of victory is within 0.5 percentage points.
Trump called for an end to the recount on Monday, claiming that voter fraud took place, although he provided no evidence.
“The Florida Election should be called in favor of Rick Scott and Ron DeSantis in that large numbers of new ballots showed up out of nowhere, and many ballots are missing or forged."

President Donald Trump criticized former ally Ann Coulter Saturday evening. Business Insider reports the president called Coulter a "wacky nut job" in a tweet Saturday n which he boasted about supposed progress on the US-Mexico border wall. Coulter
has criticized Trump for not being able to secure funding for the wall. Trump tweeted,
"Wacky Nut Job @AnnCoulter, who still hasn’t figured out that, despite all odds and an entire Democrat Party of Far Left Radicals against me (not to mention certain Republicans who are sadly unwilling to fight), I am winning on the Border. Major sections of Wall are being built..." Trump added in another tweet, "I am stopping an invasion as the Wall gets built. #MAGA" Coulter said recently of Trump, "He is dead in the water if he doesn't build that wall. Dead, dead, dead."